Hockey Stick Metrics Product Development 
Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 14, 2023
Cash flow is a basic survival metric for every startup. Your goal is that magical breakeven point and hockey-stick profit-growth curve. For example, a software development startup raising $250,000 from angel investors better be able to operate on $25,000 per month.
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 19, 2020
Cash flow is a basic survival metric for every startup. Your goal is that magical breakeven point and hockey-stick profit-growth curve. For example, a software development startup raising $250,000 from angel investors better be able to operate on $25,000 per month.
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Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 29, 2018
Cash flow is a basic survival metric for every startup. Your goal is that magical breakeven point and hockey-stick profit-growth curve. For example, a software development startup raising $250,000 from angel investors better be able to operate on $25,000 per month.
Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 5, 2014
Cashflow is a basic survival metric for every startup. Your goal is that magical break even point and hockey-stick profit-growth curve. For example, a software development startup raising $250,000 from angel investors better be able to operate on $25,000 per month.
Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 14, 2016
Cash flow is a basic survival metric for every startup. Your goal is that magical breakeven point and hockey-stick profit-growth curve. For example, a software development startup raising $250,000 from angel investors better be able to operate on $25,000 per month.
Version One Ventures
OCTOBER 31, 2016
As an investor and former founder, I know that scalable growth (and the pretty hockey stick graph) is the holy grail for every startup. The evolution of the growth function changed this dynamic, mashing together product dev and marketing as integrated functions.
Startup Lessons Learned
JANUARY 15, 2010
Behind this analysis is a spreadsheet model, complete with detailed metrics for a set of customer behaviors that show just how valuable the new product will be. They are on-schedule and on-budget, but their gross metrics are way off. They are on-schedule and on-budget, but their gross metrics are way off.
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